KU Alumnus Gives $2M Gift for Engineering, Law Schools
A gift from the estate of University of Kansas alumnus Dean Frisbie provides $1 million to the School of Law and $1 million to the School of Engineering.
Frisbie, who earned degrees from both schools, took what he learned at KU to build a life of success in ventures from real estate to vineyards.
A Mission native, Frisbie attended Shawnee Mission High School (now Shawnee Mission North). He enrolled at KU and earned a bachelor of science in civil engineering in 1951 and a law degree in 1953. He and his late wife, Florence — known to family and friends as Bunny — had two sons, Thomas and James. The couple raised their family in a beautiful home in San Francisco with a view of the Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge.